Child&#39;s garment



V s. BALLIN. CHILDS GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 1918.

1,420, 1 76 Patented June 20, 1922.

SOLOMON BALLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CHILDS GARMENT.

Application filed May 1,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that i, Fiorrm'on BALLTN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to children s garments of the character known as rompers, and special. objects of the invention are to provide a garment of this nature which can be readily put on and taken off and. which will exclude the entrance of sand, etc, at the principal oints or seams of the garment.

Accordingly, the invention may be said to reside principally in a form of connection between the jacket and trousers portion of the garment, or between the flaps of the waist, embodying a continuous pocket on the edge of the one member receiving the edge of the member to be connected to it, and thus providing a seal preventing the entrance of sand or the like between these two sections. Specific features of invention will be brought out as the specification proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a practical embodiment of the invention, with one of the sides of the jacket partly opened; Figure 2 is a broken detail view of the waist portion of the garment with this side caught in place and the outer flap of the seal about to be buttoned over it; Figure 3 is an enlarged broken sec tional view of the lower edge of the jacket about to be entered into the sealing pocket, this view being taken substantially on the plane of line 3-? of Figure 1; Figures 4: and 5 are detail views of the joint at the ends of the sealing pocket; and Figure 6 is a view similar to Figure 3, showing how the sealing pocket idea is applied as part of the union between the flaps of the waist. The garment consists in the main of a jacket portion 7 and a trousers portion 8, said two portions or members being sepa ated along about the waistline at the front and being usually integrally or permanently united at the back.

The jacket is usually divided down the front or back, forming two side parts 9 and 10, which may be buttoned together along a vertical seam, as indicated.

The trousers member is divided at the sides into front and rear parts, the front Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 220, 1922. Serial No. 231,957.

part 11 overlapping the edge portions of the rear part, as indicated at 19., in Figures 1, 4; and 5.

The so-called sealing pocket along the upper edge of the trousers portion is here constituted by the separated flap or front part of the trousers and a flap 13, secured on the back of such front part in such a way, indicated in Figure 3, as to form a gutter or continuous pocket to receive the lower edge part of the jacket.

At its ends, the flap 13, is detached at 14, from the front trousers part so as to be passed in rear of that part 12, which the front trousers part 11 overlapssee Figures 1, i and. 5.

The front and rear walls or flaps of the sealing pocket are secured together upon the parts interposed therebetween by suitable fastenings, such as the but-tons 15 on the rear flap engt ging in registering buttonholes i6, 17, in the front flap and the interposed acket part. These buttonholes may, for greater security, be disposed at right angles to each other, as shown.

It will be seen that the construction disclosed is simple and practical, easily handled and provides a dirt-excluding joint between the two main portions of the garment. The button arrangement shown enables the front flap being unbuttoned and turned down to empty any accumulation in the sealing pocket, while leaving the two portions of the garment still connected by the rear flap. i

It will be understood that though I have described a construction in which. the iacket portion is divided down the front, maV just as well be divided in the back, and if use the terms front and back in a relative sense merely, and not with intention to limit the scope of my invention. Likewise, it is unimportant whether the waist and jacket are united at the back and to be buttoned together at the front, or vice versa.

Furthermore, I have illustrated in Figure 1 how the sealing pocket idea may be applied to the button and buttonhole connec' tion between the flaps of the waist portion. In this case the sealing pocket is vertical, while there it is applied as part of the union between the waist and jacket it is of course horizontal. But the principle is the same.

I claim:

1. A. combination garment comprising jacket and trousers members separated at the waistline, said trousers member embodying front and rear portions separated vertically at the sides thereof with the edge part of one of such portions overlapping the adjoining edge part of the other portion, said overlapping portion also overlapping the lower vedge part of the jacket member and provided with a flap disposed in rear of such lower edge part of the jacket member, said flap being separated at its ends from the portion to which it is attached and extend ing in rear of the edge part of theoverlapped portion aforesaid and fastenings secured to said rear flap securing said flap to the overlapping portion with said parts engaged thereb etween.

2. A combination garment comprising j'acketand trousers members united at the rear and separated at the front along the waistline, said trousers member embodying ,front and rear portions separated at the sides along vertical lines, said front portion of the trousers member overlapping the ,lower edgepartof thejacket member and provided with a flap disposed in rear of said lower edge part of the jacket member, said flap being separated at its ends from the front portion aforesaid of the trousers member and extending in rear of the edge part of the rear trousers portion which is overlapped by the front trousers portion, buttons on said inner flap and the detached ends thereof, and the front overlapping portion and the interposed parts having buttonholes to take said buttons.

8. A combination garment comprising jacket and trousers portions united and separated respectively either the front or b a ck along the waistline, said trousers portion having a continuous pocket along the upper edge thereof receiving and embracing the entire lower edge of the jacket portion, said pocket being separated at its ends for overlapping relation with the jacket portion to the rear of the embraced lower edge thereof and means for securing the lower edge and sides of said jacket portion within said pocket.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SOLOMON BALLIN. 

